Susan I/S Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you Brian. I know he had been on hospice > care since March. I am still processing, this is > very sad. Yes, indeed. I am so very sorry. I wish that Steve could have enjoyed the long, blissful retirement he so richly deserved. Condolences to Claire and to all Steve's family and friends.
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I always hope for a miracle in the midst of catastrophic events. Of course, the real miracle would be if they didn't occur in the first place. There's something about the Christian camp being in the midst of the flood, and praying for miracles, and lives lost, and the why of it all that's beyond heartbreaking. I know there are weather and terrain explanations. Still, the scream of why, why,
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cl27526 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not Canada, but the 1st of July is my > birthday. SO THANKS! :)
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So I looked up "Is religion science?" Shockingly, my AI buddy says No! Trying again, I asked "Is creationism science?" Again, AI bud says "No." (OK, I didn't really have to look it up. But I did. Just to see if anything had changed lately. So far, that's a No).
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sbg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’m going with hotter than the hinges of Hades > 4th. Currently 92F, feels like 96F. Unacceptable Yikes. I'd have to be crawling into the freezer long since. They're saying it's only 70F here today - it feels like 100 to me. Their thermometers must be dying of heat stroke to be so far off the mark. There's a
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Exuberant and joyful you say Kentish. Two appealing qualities, among others. A heartbreaking situation.
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I read the article again today. (Still depressing). I was surprised (again) to see that Jane got in with Joseph Smith and later Brigham Young (albeit as a servant). I wonder why/how she hooked up with the leaders of her new faith. Here are some excerpts that demonstrate, without even calling special attention to it, some of the effects of the Mormon beliefs about race: first, that Jane coul
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Elder Berry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anything can change in LDS the craziest thing is > what they don't change. Good point.
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Our PM referred to him as His Highness of Edinburgh. It should be His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. But nobody much was really standing on ceremony today, just in good spirits & enjoying the show. People are giving our new PM some space to slip into his new role. He's not a professional politician & so far that's been a massive benefit for him. Everybody seemed like they were
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Thank you D & everybody! I enjoyed watching the ceremony held in Ottawa today. It was lively, enthusiastic and musical. Speeches were kept to a minimum and mercifully short. The Prime Minister spoke briefly and received lots of applause. He's new and not a professional politician as well as quite personable so he's getting some love, so far. Prince Edward was in attendance (QE II's youn
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What is "factually innocent" meant to mean? I've never heard that phrase before.
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Perfect, D.
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It's hard to imagine that the church leaders are OK with people using their phones in church. Or are you (or someone in one of the responses) saying they're using the phones in church in place of books/Bibles/hymnals? If so, wow, I'm out of touch. Mostly because, thankfully, I haven't attended for so long I forget which century it was that I did (kidding but not by much!). If there are no o
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It's been a long time since the last one. Or so it seems. :) Your weekend sounds enticing. Mine is a little less so but who knows what may be around the corner. Meanwhile, yes, stay safe everybody. You too Ron. Not too much of that Merlot now! (But it sounds like a lovely idea).
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Yes, summer, surveillance & prevention & education is the ideal way to go. Many women aren't even getting Pap tests etc now or regular routine checkups. Unfortunately, 24 hrs is a distant dream now as often the waits are much longer. There was no triage the night I was there. I just sat down after checking in & suffered through feeling deathly ill until they finally called me. I w
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There are several reasons for the shortage of physicians in general, summer, but particularly of GPs: 1. A huge crop of family physicians is aging out (retiring) all at the same time. 2. Fewer MDs are choosing family practice. 3. Barriers (or at least significant delays) in licensing internationally trained MDs. 4. Our growing population and the supply of MDs is not keeping up with th
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Human Wrote (from the Hippocratic Oath): ------------------------------------------------------- > ... Neither > will I give a woman means to procure an abortion. It was a good long while ago that Hippocrates swore by all the gods and goddesses. There have been some changes. Not the least of which is that MDs don't have to swear by "all the gods and goddesses" any more.
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Years ago I worked in a clinic where all the MDs identified as Christian, of various denominations. Some of the physicians were close to being fundamentalists, in my view, in a general sense of the word in that they had very strict, strongly held beliefs, in certain denominations, and did not veer from them. The MDs made their female patients of childbearing age aware ahead of time, when possi
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Re your temple experience: Ick
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Here's an article written by an active member about "sad heaven": https://leadingsaints.org/sad-heaven-is-false-doctrine-family-arrangements-will-be-more-wonderful-than-you-can-imagine/ He discusses this idea and states there is no sad heaven. Interesting. I've never heard that term before - it's sad in and of itself. Somehow, believers have to reconcile the doctrine of se
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Interesting, but sad to see how much Jane Manning James gave to the church and what did she get back? A forever sentence of being a servant to Joseph Smith. And decades of yearning to be endowed and sealed. The article states: "Church President Joseph F. Smith spoke at her funeral, where he declared that she would receive all her temple blessings in the eternities and become a "whit
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Floating Ships Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Message title: Support the disabled. > Message content: Liquidate late term foetuses and > vacuum them out of the womb. > > You sound like one of the people who read "a > Modest Proposal" and couldn't detect the sarcasm. In the very sad case that summer references, it was not a &
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Oh. Thanks.
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My mum used to take us there frequently to shop from a young age. It was just always there - in so many towns. The Bay stores in Vancouver are architectural gems, especially in these last few decades with so much far less attractive architecture swamping the place. A B.C. billionaire has bought 28 store leases and plans to call her "empire" the New Bay. Canadian Tire has bought th
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Hi cl2. That's great about your blood sugar going down. Just a quick word about canned soup - gotta watch how much you use as it's so full of salt. That is not good for anybody, especially including people with diabetes (which often comes along with high blood pressure). If your BP is an issue you don't want to overdo the salt (or even if BP is in the normal range - salt may taste good to many
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Hi Kentish: I thought you'd enjoy this article about a Canadian Spitfire pilot and the Canadian warplane museum recently dedicating a plane in his name: https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/warplane-museum-dedicates-spitfire-to-ace-wwii-fighter-pilot-from-windsor He survived the war, despite his Spit crashing into a tree (which killed the co-pilot), but he himself died in a single ve
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It still made me laugh again, days later.
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Any time, BG.
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good on you, summer. You have served your > communities well. Teachers do so much and never > get the credit or $ they deserve. Indeed
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a lovely obituary, BoJ. Thanks for posting > it. Ditto. And yeah - Alda's post made my eyes leak. She "made the most of her time here". A goal anybody would be happy to score.
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